Profile portrait of a saker ... Iran

Profile portrait of a saker ... IranProfile portrait of a saker (hurr) falcon belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in the sands surrounding Al Ain. The falcon perches on a wakir (block), facing towards the left. The falcon's shadow falls across the sand behind it. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Salim bin Turkia

The peregrine's body faces directly forward

View of several boats

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party climbing the crest of a high dune in the Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

View of rope sellers at an open air market in the city of Sabya

View of Khawlan Bedouin traders at Suq 'Ayban market under Jabal Fayfa

Exposed rings of sedimentary sandstone sit above the sand floor of the depression

A young man wearing a palm head-dress and long sword over his wraparound skirt stands in the foreground

In the foreground a man stands next to a cow

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf)

mostly bare

In the foreground a group of men in loincloths stand beside large round bundles of palm leaves